Why all my girlfriends turned out to be psychos

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The discussion revolves around the perception that many attractive individuals may have mental health issues, particularly focusing on the allure of "crazy" or creative types. Participants share humorous anecdotes about dating experiences with creative individuals, often attributing a wild and exciting nature to these relationships, while also acknowledging the potential downsides, such as erratic behavior. The conversation touches on the idea that some personality traits associated with mental illness may enhance creativity and attractiveness, as suggested by research. There is a playful tone throughout, with jokes about the quirks of dating and the challenges of navigating relationships with those who exhibit unconventional behaviors. The thread highlights a blend of humor and introspection regarding attraction, sanity, and the complexities of romantic relationships.
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Does it seem like everyone you find attractrive turns out to be suffering from mental illness? Maybe it's because you're sexually attracted to the schizophrenics. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051207/hl_nm/creativity_tied_sexual_success_dc_2

On the other hand, ever wonder why so many of the opposite sex find you attractive? :frown:
 
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Yet again, I regret being sane.
 
BobG said:
Maybe it's because you're sexually attracted to the schizophrenics.
Damn right, it's the nearest some of us can get to a threesome.
 
In my 20's I dated only musicians and artists. All my boyfriends were "creative types".
 
Crazy women are freakin' wild in bed. Later, when they cook your pet rabbit, it's not so much fun.
 
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franznietzsche said:
They also tend to rub off on you...
Yeah, I dated a leper once too. We broke up. Well... she did.
 
El Hombre Invisible said:
Yeah, I dated a leper once too. We broke up. Well... she did.

:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:

I'm a horrible person, I really did lol at that.

:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
 
franznietzsche said:
:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
I'm a horrible person, I really did lol at that.
:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
Don't judge yourself, man. I'm laughing at my own joke, so think how I feel!
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Crazy women are freakin' wild in bed. Later, when they cook your pet rabbit, it's not so much fun.

except when the gravy is really flavorful...damn...'Buttons' tastes even better the next day.
 
  • #11
BobG said:
Does it seem like everyone you find attractrive turns out to be suffering from mental illness?
You said "turns out to be suffering...". Have you considered that this leaves open the possibility that they weren't necessarily all "suffering" before they met you?
 
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El, you've destroyed my ability to take anything seriously for the rest of the day! I'll be laughing my guts out every time I think of that. :smile:
 
  • #13
DocToxyn said:
except when the gravy is really flavorful...damn...'Buttons' tastes even better the next day.
I try to give this quiz to potential girlfriends:

Which of the two actors listed played the protagonist in the following movies:

Play Misty For Me
A.) Sondra Lock
B.) Clint Eastwoob

Misery
A.) James Caan
B.) Kathy Bates

Fatal Attraction
A.)Glenn Close
B.)Michael Douglas
 
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It's true, crazy girls are hot. I won't date anyone that hasn't had at least one lengthy conversation with a lamp or seat cushion.
 
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SpaceTiger said:
It's true, crazy girls are hot. I won't date anyone that hasn't had at least one lengthy conversation with a lamp or seat cushion.
Someday you'll get sick of waking up and finding them sitting in a chair staring at you holding a knife, though.
 
  • #16
zoobyshoe said:
Someday you'll get sick of waking up and finding them sitting in a chair staring at you holding a knife, though.

I very much doubt it.
 
  • #17
Yeah, knives are classic, but flame throwers are so much more entertaining. :-p
 
  • #18
SpaceTiger said:
It's true, crazy girls are hot. I won't date anyone that hasn't had at least one lengthy conversation with a lamp or seat cushion.


Well I would date someone who hasn't, but all of the ones I've dated certainly have had such conversations.
 
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honestrosewater said:
Yeah, knives are classic, but flame throwers are so much more entertaining. :-p


Yup. The screams, oh the screams. And the acrid smell of burning hair and flesh. Mmmm. I'm kinda hungry. What's for lunch?
 
  • #20
zoobyshoe said:
Someday you'll get sick of waking up and finding them sitting in a chair staring at you holding a knife, though.

But post-knife-fight sex is the best!
 
  • #21
matthyaouw said:
But post-knife-fight sex is the best!


Not quite as good as post-throwing-radiactive-materials-at-each-other-fight-sex. Something about that alpha radiation just leaves you with so much energy.
 
  • #22
franznietzsche said:
Not quite as good as post-throwing-radiactive-materials-at-each-other-fight-sex. Something about that alpha radiation just leaves you with so much energy.

The added bonus being, with all that radiation, you needn't worry about protection!
 
  • #23
SpaceTiger said:
It's true, crazy girls are hot. I won't date anyone that hasn't had at least one lengthy conversation with a lamp or seat cushion.
Does it have to be a lamp or seat cushion? Does it count if we talk to the computer or printer or try to talk an assay into behaving and giving us the right results?
 
  • #24
Moonbear said:
Does it have to be a lamp or seat cushion? Does it count if we talk to the computer or printer or try to talk an assay into behaving and giving us the right results?

I think I would require some extra convincing in this circumstance. Computers and printers aren't completely inanimate, so the conversation wouldn't be as one-sided. Perhaps if they were turned off at the time...
 
  • #25
Moonbear said:
Does it have to be a lamp or seat cushion? Does it count if we talk to the computer or printer or try to talk an assay into behaving and giving us the right results?


My printer curses back at me, so yeah.

Really, it prints censored profanity. Scary as %@#!.
 
  • #26
Glad you all think this is funny. You do understand what all this means right? A person would have to be crazy to find you attractive.
 
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:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:

Oh, NO YOU DIDN'T! Trib just shut up everyone in this thread!
 
  • #28
SpaceTiger said:
I think I would require some extra convincing in this circumstance. Computers and printers aren't completely inanimate, so the conversation wouldn't be as one-sided. Perhaps if they were turned off at the time...
Does shouting at the bed count when it sticks out a post to stub my toe in the middle of the night?
 
  • #29
Are you sure that was a bed-post? Might just have been a stalker who fell asleep thinking about you.
 
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I try to give this quiz to potential girlfriends:

Which of the two actors listed played the protagonist in the following movies:

Have you managed to convert any potential girlfriends to actual girlfriends using your quiz, or do they tend to look at you in a weird way and then run away?
 
  • #31
tribdog said:
Glad you all think this is funny. You do understand what all this means right? A person would have to be crazy to find you attractive.

I think it means that I have some catching up to do. My fellow crazies seem to be a getting a lot more action!
 
  • #32
SpaceTiger said:
I think it means that I have some catching up to do. My fellow crazies seem to be a getting a lot more action!
That's not because of craziness. they are, after all, quite a bit more attractive. no offense. I'm not saying you are ugly, but you are. Beauty is only skin deep, but yours doesn't even reach that depth. lol I'm just screwing around. I'm not kidding with you.
 
  • #33
tribdog said:
That's not because of craziness. they are, after all, quite a bit more attractive. no offense. I'm not saying you are ugly, but you are. Beauty is only skin deep, but yours doesn't even reach that depth. lol I'm just screwing around. I'm not kidding with you.

And me without a bag to put over my head. I heard Celine Dion is into that sort of thing.
 
  • #34
tribdog said:
Glad you all think this is funny. You do understand what all this means right? A person would have to be crazy to find you attractive.
And...?
 
  • #35
No, that wasn't Celine Dion. It was, yep, you guessed it: Frank Stallone.
 
  • #36
SpaceTiger said:
It's true, crazy girls are hot. I won't date anyone that hasn't had at least one lengthy conversation with a lamp or seat cushion.
That doesn't work. Once in a while you run into one that fakes them and it's hard to tell. The conversation sounds the same and only she knows the lamp and seat cushion aren't talking back.
 
  • #37
BobG said:
That doesn't work. Once in a while you run into one that fakes them and it's hard to tell. The conversation sounds the same and only she knows the lamp and seat cushion aren't talking back.

What really gets me is the cell phones. I'll be walking down the street and see someone who appears to be talking to themselves or a nearby batch of shrubbery, and I'll be all like, "Hottie alert!" Then I'll get closer and find out they're just talking on a cell phone or headset or some such nonsense. This all just plays into my theory that cell phones will eventually lead to the extinction of human beings.

That reminds me, I need to get a new cell phone.
 
  • #38
I'm not psycho, is that why I'm all alone? :frown:
 
  • #39
Evo said:
I'm not psycho, is that why I'm all alone? :frown:
Everyone can't be psycho. If you're not psycho, you're supposed to be attracted to a psycho. The article said so.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Everyone can't be psycho. If you're not psycho, you're supposed to be attracted to a psycho. The article said so.
I'm not aware of being attracted to any psychos, so does that make me psycho by default? :frown:
 
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Evo said:
I'm not aware of being attracted to any psychos, so does that make me psycho by default? :frown:
Well, you are attracted to psychos. In the article they're called "creative people".

Certain schizophrenia-related personality traits, they speculate, may confer benefits when they are not part of a mental illness. When they instead spur creativity, for example, they may offer a mating advantage, according to the researchers, led by Daniel Nettle, a psychologist at the University of Newcastle.
 
  • #42
Evo said:
I'm not aware of being attracted to any psychos, so does that make me psycho by default? :frown:
Everybody's crazy except for me and thee and I'm not to sure about thee.~ Sigmund Freud or was it Rasputin
 
  • #43
Evo said:
I'm not aware of being attracted to any psychos, so does that make me psycho by default? :frown:
The way you judge potential mates by the manner in which they wield a fork is definitely a bit odd.:wink:
 
  • #44
TheStatutoryApe said:
The way you judge potential mates by the manner in which they wield a fork is definitely a bit odd.:wink:


:smile: :smile: :smile:
 
  • #45
But antisocial personality disorder and schizophrenia are not the same mental illness. Psychopaths are usually the dangerous types.
 
  • #46
i don't think creative types are necessarily crazy. I like to think of myself as quirky. oooor, imaginative. ooooor living in an idealistic reality not necessarily in sync with everyone else's reality. yes, all that, but not crazy, no no. If you heard what the lamps were saying, you'd be talking to them all the time too!
 
  • #47
zoobyshoe said:
Everyone can't be psycho. If you're not psycho, you're supposed to be attracted to a psycho. The article said so.

Are you sure about that? Maybe it's supposed to be that psychos are attracted to you if you're not psycho.
 
  • #48
Psychos are attracted to non-psychos because they want to make everyone else psycho so they can then be normal...
 
  • #49
russ_watters said:
Psychos are attracted to non-psychos because they want to make everyone else psycho so they can then be normal...


I disagree. I'm definitely psycho, and I'm only attracted to psychos because normal people are boring. Like my last ex who thought all ugly people should just die. Yup, definitely a psycho. Or the other one who was a liberal socialist devout christian. Brilliant and crazy. See?
 
  • #50
SpaceTiger said:
What really gets me is the cell phones. I'll be walking down the street and see someone who appears to be talking to themselves or a nearby batch of shrubbery, and I'll be all like, "Hottie alert!" Then I'll get closer and find out they're just talking on a cell phone or headset or some such nonsense. This all just plays into my theory that cell phones will eventually lead to the extinction of human beings.
That reminds me, I need to get a new cell phone.

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